Motivational Quotes

Music

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

- Armstrong, Louis

Best Quotes about Music

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Carlyle, Thomas

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Huxley, Aldous

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.

Dietz, Howard

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van